![]() Otherwise the world is crumbling and cannot be fixed. I’ve had plenty of moments where we just had distract or simply get some food in a hungry toddler’s belly. Unfortunately, sometimes your toddler may also be too tired, hungry, or overstimulated to show any kind of self control. I’ve seen my toddlers hit in frustration, because they want something, defending a toy from someone, to get food, to nurse, or when they didn’t get their way. These poor little guys, trying to communicate and figure out what they’re allowed to have control of. ![]() My point here is that by the time your child starts hitting, they can understand most of what you say and you can use tone and facial expression to make your words more clear. He ran to the back of the hallway and did it! I realized I had been operating as though he couldn’t understand me…and letting a lot of behaviors slide. He couldn’t talk yet and I was curious to see if he could understand those directions. When my first was newly walking, I asked him to put a dirty shirt in the laundry basket. I parent with the belief that kids can understand WAY more than we think before they can talk, and they can definitely understand tone and body language. As a first time parent I was often confused about how much my son could understand because he was a late talker. There is a lot of information out there about how much your child understands under age 2. Your toddler understands you perfectly and is capable of learning self control Hopefully you’ll find some tips to practice right away to stop you toddler from hitting, biting, and pushing that has worked for us with all 3 kids. It should be a short lived problem, and over within a couple of months! This is very normal, and I’m going to share how to stop it when you commit to addressing it every time. Instead of falling off my chair in shock that my perfect baby could do something so mean, I said, “It has begun” and got to work. How you help your child stop hitting will look different based on their age, but in this post I’m sharing our experience with our 3 kids around age 2.Įach of my kids went through an experimental toddler hitting and biting phase around 20 months. Right up there with with potty training kids who won’t poop on the toilet and getting your toddler to stop whining. Figuring out how to stop a toddler from hitting is no easy task! And if you are a first time mom, it’s even more shocking.
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